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An edition of Modern Political Economy (1978)

Modern Political Economy

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Prentice Hall
Language
English
Pages
143

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1978, Prentice Hall
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Table of Contents

PREFACE
Page xi
PART ONE: PREMISES FOR A MODERN THEORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
Page 1
Theory: A Tool for Political Inquiry and Political Practice
Human Nature and Politics: Political Choice
The Structure of Preferences
Rationality: The Result of our Restrictions
For Further Reading
1. GROUP CHOICE
Page 15
Relating Individual Preferences To Social Choices
An Impossibility Theorem
Regarding Group Choice
Overview and Proof of Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem
Group Choice Procedures Re-Examined
For Further Reading
2. COLLECTIVE ACTION IN UNORGANIZED GROUPS
Page 32
The Objectives of Political Action: Collective Goods
Individual Behavior and Optimality
Collective Behavior and Suboptimality
For Further Reading
3. COLLECTIVE ACTION, MARGINAL COST SHARING, AND CONTINGENT PREFERENCES
Page 49
Organizing for Marginal Cost Sharing: Establishing a Threshhold
Adding to the Rationality Assumption
Expected Value Maximization and Collective Action
Overcoming the Barrier to Participation: Supplying Excludable Incentives
For Further Reading
4. POLITICAL ORGANIZING AND POLITICAL ENTREPRENEURS
Page 66
Entrepreneurial Leaders
Entrepreneurial Behavior in Varying Contexts
Non-Self-Oriented Entrepreneurs: What Difference? The Ethics of Leadership
For Further Reading
PART TWO: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEMOCRACY
Page 91
Democracy as a Set of Decision Rules
For Further Reading
5. VOTING
Page 97
The Rational Act of Voting
The Downsian Voter
Rational Ignorance
For Whom Is It Rational To Be More Informed? Forms of Contribution and Participation Other Than Voting
For Further Reading
6. PARTY PLATFORMS IN A DEMOCRACY
Page 117
Single Peaked Preferences With One Issue
Electoral Competition as "Spatial" Competition
Shortcomings of the Spatial Analogue
Distributional Issues
Vote Trading and Coalitions of Minorities
Some Normative Conclusions
For Further Reading
INDEX
Page 747

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographies and index.

Published in
Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Series
Foundations of Modern Political Science
Copyright Date
1978

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Dewey Decimal Class
320
Library of Congress
JA71 .F66, JA66

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xiii, 143p.
Number of pages
143
Dimensions
23 x x centimeters

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OL4537299M
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77003379
OCLC/WorldCat
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